Property prices in London are distorted by how much is owned by the top 1% or 0.1%, such as the Duke of Westminster who owns 300 acres of Mayfair and Belgravia.
The OFSTED maximum children per childminder ratio is six, so looking after three kids necessarily takes half a person's salary before overheads. This is often forgotten in the childcare costs discussion by all political sides.
Specially because many of the jobs require you to be based in London.
These statistics are used to pit workers against each other and enforce crabs in the bucket mentality that works in favour of big corporation who then can keep wages low.
Even if you are in 1% you are still far from being "rich".
The workers are really screwed in the UK and then you have tax thresholds not adjusted for inflation for over a decade, so it's getting worse.
You can't fix the problem of things being insanely expensive by increasing wages. That just makes prices go up.
House prices have near enough doubled in the UK over the last 10 years. Average house price at the start of 2020 was 240k, now it's bordering 300k. Do you honestly think that wages have seen growth even close to that?
Every time there's a major price increase you can point to a congruent increase in the amount of money available to buy houses. I don't think it's a coincidence.
I don't think it's fair paying a larger proportion of your income just cause you make more.
But what's worse are brackets such as the ones in the UK. Up to ~50k you pay 20%, but anything above that will be taxed at a 40% rate, which is, plain and simple, theft.